Briefing the media persons at a press conference held at his house at Haokip veng, Imphal, the former MP expressing dissatisfaction with the "force merger" of Manipur into the Indian Union, Manipur was not merged into Indian union by its own wills had also been expressed by a body of lawyers of the state chaired by Ahanthem Nilamani.
When big states in the Indian sub-continent signed the merger agreement, smaller stated like Manipur could not objected the merger agreement.
Even though the king was not wiling to sign the agreement, he has to go to Shillong as he received Telegraph message to visit for four times, Holkhomang recalled.
The king refused to sign the agreement when asked to do so at first instant of visit to Shillong.
Indian Army (Assam Rifles) kept cordon-off the house of the king at Red-land and keep him under house arrest to force him sign the agreement, he said.
The time when Maharaja Bodhachandra signed the agreement, the Nikhil hindu Manipur Mahasabha is struggling for ouster of the king and merger of Manipur into Indian Union.
When the activists of the Mahasabha tried to stormed royal place.
At that time, around 100 Haokip warriors with armed protected the palace, he recalled.